4--8--16 ohm C-Gold for Ghia Le ?

[Stan]

If purchasing a Celestion 10" Gold for CG LE

what ohm rating is best or better or not?

[ericatunc]

I have limited knowledge, but I always thought there wasn't a difference.

[Mark (Basement Enthusiast)]

I don't think any one rating is "better" than another for sound/tone, but I think what matters more is how you might use that speaker otherwise. Would you ever run that speaker parallel with another cabinet, or use it with another amp that might not have all 3 outputs, etc?

I've been buying, trying, & swapping speakers at a near ludicrous rate in the last few years, and at some point I decided to just get everything in 8 ohms. That way, if I run 'em singly, or in parallel, or series, whatever.. it'll still come out to something between 4–16 ohms that most of my amps can handle.

There I go again with a "long" answer to a "short" question. My opinion: get the 8 ohm; it would most likely be the most useful/flexible impedance--provided that most of your other stuff is 8 ohm, too.

[Stan]

Then perhaps the parallel or series wiring I was thinking ,

I recall something about the ohm rating and how it affects tone in a multiple wiring scenario.

[Mark (Basement Enthusiast)]

Let me also add that some manufacturers (Eminence, for example) have published specifications for 8- vs 16-ohm versions of the same speaker where the sensitivity (loudness) and/or resonant frequency vary (sometimes quite significantly) between the 8- and 16- ohm versions. And yet, for example, I've still never heard anybody argue that their 8-ohm Wizard sounds any different from their 16-ohm Wizard. (Why? Because you can never directly compare them anyway--you'd have to use different output taps, which introduces another variable.)

So, I guess I'm just saying: buy/use whichever impedance works best for you in whichever configuration(s) you want to use the speaker. But leave tone out of that decision.

[John]

I would get an 8 ohm. If you want to parallel it with another 8 ohm cab.....then you'll have 4 ohms. And if by some strange change you want to hook up another 8 ohms in series, that will be 16 ohms.

[headshrinker (Marc)]

8 ohm. They are also easier to sell if you ever want to get rid of it.

[51d]

Z-Natic's perspective is, I'd suggest, the one to go with; the 8 ohm rating is the most flexible, and won't hurt resale so much when the time comes.  I've seen 16 ohm speakers hang around for a long time, simply because they buck some kind of non-existent norm.  As of course, they all sound they same when compared side by side.

[Stan]

Consensus

8 ohm it is.